Smoke-Particle Photogram Drawing 004 ceramics It is stamped with the

It is stamped with the seal I had made in Tokyo in 2009

These photographs are the Particles of Light

My seal drawings are based on a form that I feel is stored in my body’s memory

as well as carbon dioxide that was converted into carbon in that same period

Because of all this

Smoke-Particle Photogram Drawing 004 ceramics It is stamped with theEach piece begins as a watercolour drawing, then is exposed to rising smoke from a kerosene flame. The soot, or 300 year old particles, reaches the paper through a second, sacrificial drawing that has been cut out. This intermediary sheet is slowly destroyed in the process, leaving only its traces and shadows. Soot and combustion particles settle directly onto the watercolour and grow a smoky drawing over the colour beneath, a kind of particle